Technical Design

As ubiquitous as the atmosphere, intelligent adaptive systems (IASs) surround us in our daily lives. When designed well, these systems sense users ...

Gain a Deeper Understanding of Mechanical Fastening: Assemble More Efficient and Competitive ProductsA good design, quality parts, and properly exe...

Careful selection of the right lubricant(s) is required to keep a machine running smoothly. Lubrication Fundamentals, Third Edition, Revised and Ex...

From the Physiology of Machines to the Anatomy of MachinesAn offshoot stemming from the authors previous book detailing the makeup and composition ...

This text guides the reader through the many forms of shiftwork, adopting a broad definition as being any regularly-taken employment outside the da...

Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight. These reports are based on the premise that, with a little more thought, the...

Recipient of the 2019 IISE Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award This is a comprehensive textbook ...

Safety performance is a complicated issue, particularly in high-hazard environments, where time and other constraints can be amplified, and result ...

Most frauds perpetrated by senior managers take longer to uncover than those by other occupational groups and they steal more. This is a serious pr...

This book takes the reader through the process of learning and creating data visualisation, following a unique journey with questions every step of...

Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight. These reports are based on the premise that, with a little more thought, the...

Originally published in 1948, A History of Cast Iron in Architecture is a comprehensive history of the part that has been played by cast iron in ar...

This book represents the proceedings of the 10th annual symposium of the Society of Reliability Engineers, Scandinavian Chapter, and was held in St...

Technological advances in hardware and software provide powerful tools with the potential to design interfaces that are powerful and easy to use. Y...

This comprehensive volume is the product of an intensive collaborative effort among researchers across the United States, Europe and Japan. The res...

As computers proliferate and as the field of computer graphics matures, it has become increasingly important for computer scientists to understand ...

How can we give data physical form?And how might those creations change the ways we experience data and the stories it can tell?Making with Data: P...

Volume 14, Number 1, 2002. Contents: J.R. Lewis, Introduction. ARTICLES: D.J. Gillan, R.G. Bias, Usability Science 1: Foundation. H.R. Hartson, T.S...

In the fifteen years since the publication of Occupational Ergonomics: Theory and Applications significant advances have been made in this field. T...

This book focuses on the design of displays and user interfaces for the older user. Aging is related to complex mental, physical, and social change...

Although life continues to become increasingly embedded with interactive computing services that make our lives easier, human-computer interaction ...

Broadly defined as the science and technology of systems responding to neural processes in the brain, neuroadaptive systems (NASs) has become a rap...

During day-to-day use, thousands of lives are lost each year due to accidents, directly or indirectly, resulting from poor transportation system re...

The rail human factors/ergonomics community has grown quickly and extensively, and there is much increased recognition of the vital importance of e...